Sir Edmund Findlay, 2nd Baronet

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Sir (John) Edmund (Ritchie) Findlay, 2nd Baronet (14 June 19026 September 1962) was a Scottish politician and baronet.

The eldest son of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, and Dame Harriet Findlay (DBE), he was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford.

He was Unionist Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1935-1945.

Like his father and grandfather, John Ritchie Findlay, he was proprietor of The Scotsman newspaper.

He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1930 and was in turn succeeded by his brother, Lt.-Col. Roland Lewis Findlay.


Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Murdoch McKenzie Wood
Member of Parliament
for Banffshire

19351945
Succeeded by
William Smith Duthie
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet
Findlay of Aberlour
1930–1962
Succeeded by
Lt. Col. Sir Roland Lewis Findlay, 3rd Baronet

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